The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-05

stefan of the New York Infirmary for a
long period. Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell
is sister-in-law of the poet, and one OF the
most intelligent members of the State
Board of Charities With these are asso-
ciated Miss Mary c. Andrews, an intelligent
woman and typesetter. who does her best
to get her follow-workers feminine to JON
the Typographical Union; Miss Mary Nc
Ginley, feather curler and prominent
Knight of Labor; Leonore O'Reilly, a shirt
maker and bright and pretty girl, and a
number of wage-workers more. The prof.
ect of big general union for women is
making substantial progress, and is the
most practical move ever made to raise the
wages of the tenement workers who are
helpless and hopeless when isolated.
THERE ARE NOT FAR FROM %, 900 WOMEN
already organized in trades unions and local
assemblies of the Knights of Labor in the
city. These are mostly women who work
in the factories and shops, not in their tene-
ment homes. The silk weavers organized
in 1885. The feather workers have union
and the dressmakers have built up com
pact organization. There are hundreds of
telegraph operators and typesetters who be
long to unions of men and women. The
buttonhole workers, paper box workers,
fur operators, hat and shirtmakers, the
bookbinders, the shoe operatives and the
tailors have more or less prosperous unions.
The girls in Higgins carpet works are very
strongly organized.
1t is astonishing what an amount of busi-
ness sense the women display in their
unions. The organizations are positive ed
ucators, though now and then, as matter
of course, there are exceptions to the rule.
A German woman, tailor for the slop
shops, tried to start a tailor girls union this
past summer. She knew exactly what she
wished to do, but had not the faintest con-
ception how to do it, and / came upon her
one morning in a fit of Mysteries because
the big Sunday picnic up the Hudson which
was to supply funds to set the union going
had left that embryo organization hopeless
ly in debt. Her flow of tears was interrupt
ed by the entrance of the man who had fur
nished the chowder kettle which had pro
provided the picnic dinner. Grief turned
to wrath as she acclaimed against the
iniquity of renting kettle with a hole in
| it, that hole having spoiled the dinner and
through it the receipts. She declined to
pay kettle hire, and the kettle owner claimed
double pay on the ground that the abused
utensil had been whole when it left his hands
| and had been returned ruined for future
letting. There was a squally scene in that
very dingy tenement room, both parties APP
pealing to me in a voluble flow of not too
classic German as referee in the quarrel ;
and made preclpltate exit as tne war OF
words grew fiercer, fearing the fate of the
umpire in disputed base ball game.
MISS ALICE LoNGFELLow HAS BEEN
in New York great deal this fall. She is
a girl of Is, who looks like the poet, her
father She has dark hair and big soft,
dark eyes and dresses like Bostonian, that
is very simple, but with sharp eye to the
fit of a bodice after all.
Mrs. NJ. Nimmo Moran is the only wom-
an who belongs to the New York Etching
Club. Her husband. Thomas Moran, was
her master in art, and her recent work is
strong, original and dramatic. Mrs. Emily
Moran etches also, but her work shows
more delicacy than power.
Women don't applaud much at theatres,
hence men must have an eye for gowns, for
there is a symphony in two greens which
Mrs. Potter wears in the studio scene i'll
Mile. de Bressier that brings down the house
without fail. | saw her in Brooklyn last
week drop the cloak that enveloped her and
stand fully two minutes before she could
proceed for the storm of applause that greet
ed the revelation of the gown. 1t was men
that made the noise.
Mrs Cleveland had pretty gown made
in New York this past week. 1t was a
white plush, wholly without ornament and
without draperies; a simple robe falling
straight to the feet, the material being too
rich to fritter away its effects with trim
mings. E. /. ii.